And I thought black supremacists were bad. At least, they rattle off the names of phony “victims.” How can you debate someone who speaks so vaguely, that you have to guess what the heck he’s talking about? And unlike Michael Moriarty, I wrote my first study on New York crime, race, and policing in 1990. He apparently has yet to begin studying the subject.
Moriarty: “Liberal ladies, so enamored of the Mayor, shouted at the police, insulted them. Later, at a Puerto Rican Day parade, the police just let the local Spanish men fondle and ‘feel up’ these so conveniently angry ladies. The cops didn't lift a finger to help.
“Well, they'd gone to Giuliani for a pay raise to be compensated for becoming criminals with badges and lowering the crime rate and Giuliani basically said, "What? And raise the budget? That's my re-election war chest. You're just lucky my judges and court kept you out of jail."
“Gee, thanks, Mayor Rudy.”
I am not aware of any “liberal ladies” who had been “enamored of the Mayor.” Rather, I heard socialist Manhattan women disparage him back in 1994, shortly after he’d been inaugurated, “He’s so … prosecutorial.”
The attacks on females at the Puerto Rican Day Parade occurred in June, 2000. The police were not standing down out of revenge against the Mayor, but because they had been explicitly ordered to “avoid confrontations with minority males.” Over twenty NYPD officers complained to Daily News reporters, and several complained to New York Post staffers afterwards. (Whether any complained to writers at the anti-NYPD New York Times, we’ll never know. What I do know, is that the Times did not report any such complaints.)
What surprised me about the reports was that the officers were getting explicit orders to avoid minority males. I had observed NYPD officers doing just that as far back as 1993. The notion that the NYPD was “targeting” minority males was part and parcel of the racial profiling hoax, which in New York was invented partly out of racial revenge for Giuliani’s electoral victory over his black predecessor, partly in order to help Hillary Clinton beat him in the 2000 Senate race, and partly an extension of a national campaign to handcuff white police officers, and embolden minority criminals. Giuliani ended up dropping out of the race, due to prostate cancer.
Moriarty: “As for Stix's opinion of Giuliani's mayoralty: Well, if beating a Haitian, pushing a nightstick up his rectum and then down his throat is ‘pro-illegal alien,’ I'm a bit confused. So there's the lie to that.”
Article comments
1 - Ruth Hudson
Truly enjoyed this article regarding Michael Moriarty's writing. The call for accountability and lack of some research for statements he makes was excellent. I'm not a writer, but I'm glad you are. My opinion of him as an actor; he's the best, and a favorite of mine.
Thanks, Ruth